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Direct linkHeck, Isobel A.; Kushnir, Tamar; Kinzler, Katherine D. – Developmental Science, 2023
How do children learn about the structure of the social world? We tested whether children would extract patterns from an agent's social choices to make inferences about multiple groups' relative social standing. In Experiment 1, 4- to 6-year-old children (N = 36; tested in Central New York) saw an agent and three groups ("Group-A,"…
Descriptors: Children, Social Cognition, Social Development, Inferences
Pearl Han Li; Tamar Kushnir – Developmental Science, 2025
Moral decisions often involve dilemmas: cases of conflict between competing obligations. In two studies (N = 204), we ask whether children appreciate that reasoning through dilemmas involves acknowledging that there is no single, simple solution. In Study 1, 5- to 8-year-old US children were randomly assigned to a Moral Dilemma condition, in which…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Abstract Reasoning, Moral Values, Problem Solving
